Welcome to the Personal Growth and Grief Support Center

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Welcome to the Personal Growth and Grief Support Center, my website and blog. Here you will find information about the services I offer in my office and via Skype; resources to assist you on your journey through the labyrinths of life and grief with a special focus on loss and grief; and my blog, Reflections, which will hopefully prove to be a source of food for thought for you. I am an experienced psychotherapist and bereavement counselor whose passion is to assist you as you seek growth and transformation and as you walk through loss and learn how to hold and integrate your grief. In the past I have walked through the death of both of my parents, my closest friends, our Golden Retrievers Bentley and Buffy and too many others. But six years ago, my husband, best friend, soul mate and colleague Bill died of Alzheimer's disease. The day of his death was the most life changing and painful day of my life. It was his death that led me to my passion for assisting those who grieve.

The Personal Growth and Grief Support Center is an outgrowth and continuation of the services Bill and I along with several other therapists provided between 1988 and1996 at state mandated mental health clinic Teton Wood Psychological Services in Madison, WI . The clinic was founded by my husband Bill Hunt, PhD; business partner Carol Morgan, PhD and myself, Mary Friedel-Hunt MA LCSW and staffed by 8 licensed psychologists, psychotherapists and counselors as well as adjunct consultants. The clinic offered a wide variety of services. In 1996, Bill and I moved to Colorado where we lived and practiced in the mountain village of Ouray. Upon our return to Wisconsin in 2003, we resumed our practices in Madison, WI. I moved my practice to my Spring Green, WI office when Bill was no longer able to see clients due to a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Bill died in 2010 after a 5 year struggle with the disease and a long life of caring deeply for those he served first as a minister, then as a clinical psychologist for over 40 years. Bill was in private practice and on the staff of three hospitals in the Chicago area for many years before we opened our clinic in Madison, WI. I continue to see clients in Spring Green focusing primarily on a general practice and bereavement counseling, end of life issues, and death education.

I have been assisting people in a clinical setting since 1976. In addition to my private practice in Spring Green, WI, I am actively involved in using the Internet including Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networks to inform and educate others about death, end of life issues and grief related subjects. I have also served as a moderator/counselor at Grief Healing Discussion Groups, (through October 2014) a web based forum led by its founder, Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT, an experienced bereavement counselor. My professional experience includes 12 years of teaching at the elementary school level in many socioeconomic areas in and around Chicago; 38 years as a clinician doing psychotherapy, bereavement counseling and workshops; 16 years as a newspaper columnist and 6 years as founder and publisher (along with my husband Bill) of the Voice of the River Valley, a publication focused on the people, events, arts, and businesses in southwestern Wisconsin. I sold this publication but write a monthly column (Living Well, Dying Well) for it. See my resume here.

Peace to your heart,Mary Friedel-Hunt MA LCSW

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Services

Reflections Blog

Resources

In addition to this website, you are invited to visit the Grief Healing Discussion Groups where I was a member and then a moderator and counselor (through November 2014) along with founder Marty Tousley CNS-BC, FT, an experienced and compassionate bereavement counselor. Click on the button to the right to learn more about these helpful and healing forums.